If you are in the habit of watching sleazy material on the Web, apply caution! Whilst you surf in porn waters, you may get lured by a nasty Spyware Installer named 'PornPass Manager', which is real hard to get rid of completely from your computer, once the machine is infected.

According to Security Analysts at MicroWorld Technologies, PornPass Manager promises to give unsuspecting victims free access to many Adult websites and ezines from the shady side of World Wide Web. A good enough offer for many to jump the gun; but it's just a facade. In real, the program drops masked Spyware programs like SpywareQuake and VirusBurst into the computer.

PornPass Manager is very similar to the earlier pornographic password programs like X-Password Generator and MyPornMagPass. SpywareQuake and VirusBurst, the rouge security programs installed by PornPass Manager, are also identical to the ones installed by its predecessors. While these programs are run, it clashes with explorer.exe and rundll32.exe and crashes them both, making it impossible to work on the computer. While installing PPM it drops a Codec and some additional scripts in the system as well. The program will continuously show fake Virus alert messages like "System is infected with Malware like backdoors that allow the remote attacker to perform various malicious actions. Click on the balloon to download malware removal software."

PornPass Manager also creates two icons on the desktop named 'Online Security Guide' and 'Security Troubleshooting' which leads to links to certain websites and installs a Browser hijacker called Smitfraud.

"PornPass Manager is a reflection of the increasing use of Social Engineering tactics in every channel of malware proliferation," observes Sunil Kripalani, Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing, MicroWorld Technologies.

"Pornography as a bait is highly favored by email worms, Trojans, network worms and like in this case spyware programs. When you consider the fact that X-rated websites are one of the most visited places on the Internet by surfers across the world, you know these programs can potentially endanger large numbers of computers in a short span of time. At times when you download a movie clip, it may tell you to download a 'Codec' file that can work as a Trojan Downloader, which in turn will bring in many a malware," Mr Kripalani adds.

MicroWorld Technologies employs the world's most advanced technologies in combating a range of online threats and malicious programs that attack user computers. eScan from MicroWorld offers a comprehensive AntiVirus and Content Security Solution that works on a unique technology called MWL (MicroWorld Winsock Layer), along with the world's fastest and earliest updating, detection database against all kinds of Malware. For Content Security and Spam Protection, eScan uses a combination of technologies, lead by a revolutionary methodology called 'Non Intrusive Learning patterns', again a first of its kind.

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Btv Raj is the Content Writer and Creative Visualizer of MicroWorld Technologies.